Bruno Leoni

1913 - 1967

About the Author

Bruno Leoni (1913-1967) was Professor of Legal Theory and the Theory of the State at the University of Pavia, a practicing lawyer, founder editor of the journal Il Politico, newspaper columnist, and secretary and president of the Mont Pelerin Society.

In The Library:

• author: Freedom and the Law (1961 ed.) (1961)
• author: Freedom and the Law (LF ed.) (1961)

Quotations:

• Bruno Leoni on the different Ways in which Needs can be satisfied, either voluntarily through the Market or coercively through the State (1963) (30 August, 2004)
• Bruno Leoni notes the strong connection between economic freedom and decentralized legal decision-making (1961) (30 October, 2006)
• Bruno Leoni argues that expressing one’s economic choice as a consumer in a free market is quite different from making a political choice by means of voting (1961) (11 February, 2008)
• Bruno Leoni points out that elections are seriously flawed because majority rule is incompatible with individual freedom of choice (1961) (3 November, 2008)